Approximately a decade ago, the FIFA Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC) developed an injury prevention program so-called “The 11” which was aimed to reduce injuries among male and female amateur football players aged 14 years and older. The “11” was designed on the basis of information and data which was available of research on injury and structured as warm-up program to reduce an...

Players in American football must be able to competently and quickly intercept and tackle an opponent who has the ball. We developed a mathematical model that describes the use of a constant target-heading angle between the pursuer and ball carrier. We found that players in American football maintained a constant target-heading angle across changes in initial angle, direction, and speed of the ...

Recent research has raised concerns about the long-term neurological consequences of repetitive concussive and sub-concussive injuries in professional players of American Football. Despite this interest, the neural and psychological status of retired players remains unknown. Here, we evaluated the performances and brain activation patterns of retired National Football League players (NFL alumni...

BACKGROUND Talented football players are expected to overcome large training and match loads, indicating a high weekly level of physical activity (PA). AIMS With the use of accelerometers, the aim of this study was to objectively describe the players' total time spent in moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA), vigorous PA (VPA) and very vigorous PA (VVPA) per day in 1 week. Since high-intensity PA ha...

BACKGROUND Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is a severe event for a footballer, but it is unclear if the knee injury rate is higher on returning to football after ACL injury. OBJECTIVE To study the risk of knee injury in elite footballers with a history of ACL injury compared with those without. METHOD The Swedish male professional league (310 players) was studied during 2001. Player...

Yahoo Sports provides an online fantasy football league to its user base. End users create leagues and then those individuals construct a roster of real NFL players each week for head-to-head competition. NFL players are assigned “fantasy points” based on their achievements in each football game, and each head-to-head matchup produces a winner and loser based on the respective teams’ accumulate...

BACKGROUND Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an emerging cause of infections outside of health care settings. We investigated an outbreak of abscesses due to MRSA among members of a professional football team and examined the transmission and microbiologic characteristics of the outbreak strain. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study and nasal-swab survey of 84 ...

Research studies have examined effects of player position and type play on head impacts in intercollegiate football players, but there is little available information lacrosse players.

Football medicine has developed in the world in recent years. AFC Medical Committee, established the idea of football medicine travelling fellowship two years ago and provided high-level healthcare services to football players in Asian countries. This is a report on my one month experience in a travelling fellowship program for football medicine which is attempting to tell the reader about the ...